The incandescent sun as you've never seen it before - picture, video

Bono might well have been happy to go blind by staring at the sun (which probably explains the U2 man's ridiculous shades), but it's not usually possible to gawp at the beauty of the most important star.

This newly-released image from NASA changes all that. Captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the effects of processing can show some of the structures usually obscured by the sun's blinding light.